Commissioners note concerns about arsenic contamination of property, which is under FDEP management
Even with concerns about environmental contamination on the property, the Sarasota County commissioners this week voted unanimously to direct staff to negotiate with the owner of the Gulf Gate Golf Course for the purchase of the land for a stormwater initiative.
Before making the motion for that action, Commissioner Joe Neunder addressed members of the audience in the Commission Chambers of the R.L. Anderson Administration Center in Venice who had urged the board that morning to buy the property. He told them he believes they “broke a record” with the number of emails they had sent to the commissioners, “and that’s not a small feat.”
Neunder added, “I think that the homeowners did a fantastic job with articulating the ask.”…